Luppino crime family
| Founded by | Giacomo Luppino |
|---|---|
| Founding location | Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
| Years active | ca. early 1950s–? |
| Territory | Various neighborhoods over Hamilton and Toronto |
| Ethnicity | Made men are Italian, Italian-Canadian. |
| Membership (est.) | Unknown |
| Criminal activities | Racketeering, loan sharking, money laundering, fraud, murder, gambling, drug trafficking, extortion and corruption |
| Allies | Buffalo crime family |
| Rivals | Various gangs in Hamilton |
The Luppino crime family is a 'Ndrangheta organization based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The Luppino clan is one of three centralized Mafia organizations in Hamilton, the other two being the Papalia crime family under Johnny Papalia and the Musitano crime family. The Luppinos had strong connections with the Buffalo crime family of Buffalo, New York.
Giacomo Luppino and his family immigrated to Hamilton in the early 1950s from Castellace, Calabria, Italy.
In the early 1960s, the Luppinos became associated with local bootlegger Paolo Violi, but left for Montreal in 1963 on Luppino's orders to avoid clashes with other Hamilton mobster Johnny Papalia. Violi developed connections with the Cotroni crime family, while maintaining ties with the Luppino family; he married Giacomo Luppino's daughter, Grazia in 1965.
IN 1967, police began a five-year surveillance operation on Giacomo Luppino, which included wiretaping his Hamilton home.
In the early 1970s, Natale Luppino, son of Giacomo Luppino, worked with Toronto mobster Paul Volpe on extortion schemes where they would be paid kickbacks from both the union and the developers for negotiating construction contracts.
In 1982, Tony and John Luppino were convicted of fraud in 1982, receiving 15 month and 12 month sentences respectively.
Giacomo Luppino died of natural causes at the age of 87 in March 1987, whereby his son Vincenzo "Jimmy" Luppino took over the family.
In a 1999 interview with Musitano family hitman Kenneth Murdock, Murdock reveals he was ordered to kill Jimmy Luppino, but did not go through with it.
Born in 1926, Jimmy Luppino died of natural causes at the age of 83 in July 2009 in Burlington.
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